Douangchay Phichit

Douangchay Phichit (5 April 1944-17 May 2014) was Deputy Prime Minister of Laos from 2006 to 2014 and Minister of National Defense from 2001 to 2014.

Biography
Phichit was born in Attapeu in the Kingdom of Laos in French Indochina, and became a Politburo member of the Lao People's Republic from the 7th Party Congress. He was made the Minister of National Defense in 2001 and Deputy Prime Minister in 2006, but both terms were cut short by his death in a plane crash over Baan Nadi.